The decision layer for public-sector pursuits.
Most tools surface more opportunities. PursuitIQ answers the questions that decide whether to bid — is it winnable, is it funded, and is it worth your capture budget. We build for teams who need numbers they can check, not dashboards that look convincing.
Extend The Defense Collective beyond SBIR consulting.
PursuitIQ was built to extend The Defense Collective — veterans, advisors, and investors partnering with American technology to solve Warfighter problems — with capabilities beyond traditional SBIR consulting. PursuitIQ adds the decision layer between discovery and pursuit: Pursuit Score, Budget Runway, and Bid Advisor with deterministic scores, grounded funding math, and recommendations your team can audit before anyone writes a proposal.
Decision intelligence, not another feed
AURA — our Adaptive Unified Response and Acquisition Engine — composes scoring, Budget Runway, and Bid Advisor into three answers before you commit capture budget.
BD and capture teams
Purpose-built for teams making bid/no-bid calls on federal and public-sector work — not generic market intelligence or autonomous bidding theater.
Computed, grounded, calibrating to outcomes
Every figure traces to a source. Every verdict cites its evidence. The score is a transparent rubric that calibrates against real win rates as outcomes accrue — trust is the product, not the pitch.
Headquartered in Austin, Texas.
PursuitIQ is built in Austin — home to a growing defense-tech ecosystem and the operators who navigate federal pursuits, appropriations cycles, and capture culture every day.
The people behind PursuitIQ.
Three co-founders from defense innovation, enterprise technology, and special-operations capture — building the decision layer they wished existed to extend The Defense Collective beyond traditional SBIR consulting.
Co-founder focused on product and go-to-market at The Defense Collective and PursuitIQ. USAF Reserve officer and defense-tech investor who has spent a career hacking bureaucracy from the inside — from AFWERX Spark Cells to the Air Force Chief Data and AI Office.
Co-founder leading technology for PursuitIQ and The Defense Collective. Twenty-four-year Air Force strategist and serial technology founder who builds the full stack — cloud infrastructure, multi-tenant SaaS, and AI workflows that compress weeks of analysis into hours.
Co-founder leading capture for PursuitIQ and The Defense Collective. Special-operations veteran and defense venture operator who has led teams through complex stakeholder environments — from AFSOC recruitment to maritime-domain awareness at Quartermaster AI.
Go deeper on how PursuitIQ works.
Capabilities
Pursuit Score, Budget Runway, and Bid Advisor — three answers before you commit capture budget.
Explore capabilities →Methodology
How AURA works under the hood — deterministic scores, grounded recommendations, and eval-gated quality.
Read the methodology →Trust
Security posture, data sources, calibration, and the principles that make the numbers checkable.
See trust & security →Bring one real pursuit. We'll show you the score.
See how much funding is actually left, whether it's winnable, and whether it's worth your team's time.